AT&T and HDNet last week announced a distribution agreement to deliver HDNet and HDNet Movies as part of the AT&T U-verse TV channel lineup.

Under the agreement, AT&T U-verse TV customers will have access to HDNet’s 24-hour, all-HD programming, as well as HDNet Movies. Financial and other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Project Lightspeed, the company’s initiative to expand the fiber-optics network deeper into neighborhoods to deliver U-verse TV and other services, delivers AT&T U-verse TV. Through its subsidiaries, AT&T expects to reach nearly 19 million households by the end of 2008 as part of its initial deployment, using fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technologies.

The FAA’s current rules and proposed ban on flight over people, requirement of visual line of sight and restriction on nighttime flying, effectively prohibit broadcasters from using UAS for newsgathering. ~ WMUR-TV General Manager Jeff Bartlett